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As I understand it, the big issue is the special blend of gas required for CA. This would not be much of an issue, particularly stations closing for lack of fuel, if companies just shipped gas from elsewhere, but they can’t because it is illegal to sell, say, gas from AZ or NV in CA.

The question I haven’t seen asked or answered yet is for how long this refinery problem is expected.

In any event, I agree that Mitt should have jump on this with some ads. He ought to emphasize that, as President, his energy policies will bring prices down and he’d also submit a proposal to Congress for a trigger on the requirement of special blends to prevent this type of problem in the future.

If it’s known this is going to last a while longer, he also might mention if he were president now, Republicans would have passed a waiver for the sale of generic blends and he’d have signed it by now.

I do NOT feel empathy to the people- with at most two kids- pull up in 6,500 pounds of excess and whine about what it takes to fill it. We’ve had high gas prices before and will again. Personal responsibility and choices made, folks. Yes, we need to drill here, drill now; but people have to be SMARTER in the decisions they make- VOLUNTARILY.

michaelo on October 6, 2012 at 1:59 PM

Let me guess….if people don’t smarten up enough, according to your standard, then the government will be obligated to be smart for them.

Is that right? Soon, when food prices are skyrocketing, the government will be obligated to make choices for family size, limiting couples to a specified number of children….Personal responsibility and choices made,….if people aren’t smart enough to realize they need to have smaller families due to the cost of food….my my.

The question remains though, are you getting a good deal? Mine ain’t a convertible (T-top) but it is a low mileage 454 4-speed. Effin’ monster.

cozmo on October 6, 2012 at 2:06 PM

My heart is set on a convertible (as my 65 convertible Mustang was stolen in California). See screen name. When the economy (and car market) rebounds under a non-Obama administration that low mileage 454 will be one heck of an investment. Patience, Cozmo, patience. Enjoy the ride in the meantime.

This is 100% by design. Most of the Nanny-state libs in California who are pushing cars and fossil fuels off the cliff are already wealthy and feel entitled to drive their Volvos and Prius’s to and from work and their $1m homes, because they know more and care more about the planet than some teabagger electrician or small business winger gun nut who drives a chevy truck to and from the suburbs and machine guns helpless pigs and deer on the weekends.

You would be amazed (or not) at the numbers of high ranking non-profits like Transform and Save the Bay here in California where the leaders of these groups (who exist to stop construction of roads and suburbs and shoehorn people in central soviet style housing units in inner cities) live in million-dollar homes in gated suburbs. Almost none of them have ever worked a day in the private sector unless it was at an ambulance-chasing law firm loaded down with greedy trial lawyers.

Steven Chu is another classic example of a nanny-state lib who wouldnt be caught dead in the type of housing/transport loop groups like STB and Transform have in mind for everyone bu the designated elite.

Its UE who is trying to manipulate things. The fault behind the California gas price surge is the fault of California and its war on big oil refineries. The rest of the country is paying the price because oil is being shifted west to satisfy California.

You would be amazed (or not) at the numbers of high ranking non-profits like Transform and Save the Bay here in California where the leaders of these groups (who exist to stop construction of roads and suburbs and shoehorn people in central soviet style housing units in inner cities) live in million-dollar homes in gated suburbs. Almost none of them have ever worked a day in the private sector unless it was at an ambulance-chasing law firm loaded down with greedy trial lawyers.

Sacramento on October 6, 2012 at 2:37 PM

That’s exactly why I left California. California has increasingly become a series of expensive islands of safety in a sea of trouble. It is essentially economic segregation.

I do NOT feel empathy to the people- with at most two kids- pull up in 6,500 pounds of excess and whine about what it takes to fill it.

michaelo on October 6, 2012 at 1:59 PM

Maybe you should work on your empathy skills, or at least your cognitive reasoning skills. There are many reasons why somebody might need to drive a larger vehicle, reasons that aren’t readily apparent when you make your snap judgement at the pump. If you saw me with my minivan and two kids you would probably have no empathy for me, either, but we really do need a minivan. My husband is 6′ 8″ and we have two children in rear-facing car seats. A minivan was THE ONLY vehicle that would fit my husband and both car seats safely. It is my primary vehicle and my husband drives a small SUV, yet again, the only vehicle besides a minivan he was able to fit in safely when he bought it in 2001. Would we prefer to drive vehicles with better gas mileage? Absolutely, but we will not compromise safety to do so. My father-in-law, who is 6′ 2″ drives a mini cooper, which is supposedly the best low-mileage car for tall people, but when my husband drives it he feels that his legs are crammed in.

Based on Hot Air logic — where all bad news is the result of conspiracy (pre-debate polling) or lies (unemployment figures) — I can only assume that this is the result of oil companies manipulating the price to screw Obama.

urban elitist on October 6, 2012 at 1:40 PM

I don’t know, maybe they are. Such tactics are the norm in the Age of Obama.

Let me guess….if people don’t smarten up enough, according to your standard, then the government will be obligated to be smart for them.

Is that right? Soon, when food prices are skyrocketing, the government will be obligated to make choices for family size, limiting couples to a specified number of children….Personal responsibility and choices made,….if people aren’t smart enough to realize they need to have smaller families due to the cost of food….my my.

Save us, Obi-Wan, you’re our only hope.

BobMbx on October 6, 2012 at 2:10 PM

More like .. “If people don’t smarten up enough in responding to the problems government creates….. if we don’t bow to some manchild and his party in DC who want to be king and literally rule out lives, destroy everything good people have built with their own two hands then morons like that won’t have any sympathy!”

This is the fault of the CARB czars and EPA czars, UNELECTED bureaucrats who have decided that we have to have different blends of gas in different seasons, and the seasons start when they say they do. Yes, the idiots here voted in Dems, but they didn’t vote in this nonsense.

This is IPAB, folks. What we are going through in CA is coming soon to you in energy and health care.

Here’s your ad Romney: Tight shot on a “forward” shirt, showing the Obama campaign slogan. Slowly pan out to reveal the wearer, trudging wearily from their vehicle, abandoned at a gas station with $6 gas. Quick zoom back to the shirt, with a question mark added: Forward?